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Dear Bristolweb,

in some way it still does. Page Rank as you know is being build be gathering links to your websites. PR from the linking website to your own flows over a little. The same goes with Domain Authority and other metrics.

The more people "vote" on your website the better Google will have to like your site because people told Google this is what we would like to see.

So:

quality linking to your websites increases page rank - > more quality links improve your metrics -> more quality links improve your position in Google.

If you really want o improve your pages rank or page rank or whatever name you want to use you could commit yourself to a on-line community asking question, answering questions about the subject of your website. Linking to it from the community helps a lot and also spend time on link building. Use the tools provided by SEOMoz to check out your competitors and make sure you get a link on that page. It could only help not harm your site (not completely true but it's all about the essence in here).

So to sum up my advise:

Yes, PR of pages rank is a (very small) factor in the Google Algorithm so it's still important.

Should you focus on it? In a way: Yes. As I already explained PR is mainly build on the number of "Votes" that go to your websites. So getting more Votes improves your PR and improve the amount of traffic (when you get quality votes) which in turn is a factor in the Algorithm.

Focus on gaining good quality links to your website. It will help!

Wayne,

What if you would make a section on your main website for licenses and there each license that you have given to a company gets it's own page. On that page their company information is shown with adress, phonenumbers etc.

They put up a shield or badge, that you have to develop, with a link to their section/license on your site. That way you do the licensing and resolve the issue of duplicate content since the information is gathered on your site. And you get about 50+ incoming links. About the link network I'm not all that concerned. I run a website with over 900 campsites. I guess about 200 of those sites link to our website and we link to their website on their own page. We never had any problems with that method.

Hope you understand what I'm getting at.

regards

Jarno

ok for starters: if i scan socialhero.com with my tools I only get 4 pages returned. With the index being duplicated even. So something is going wrong here.

The 404 error is probably induced by a page linking to a non existing page and returning server code 404. You should follow the links on the site untill you find the problem. Or you can use a sitemap tool that also tells you where are the links are going to and coming from.

The 302 redirects do present a problem. There are 2 different way's of redirecting information. 301 is a permanent version and that one also passes linkjuice, authority and all other things. 302 has been reseached and tested by some of the biggest names in the SEO world and passes on almost no linkjuice/authority. Use a .htaccess file to redirect the pages to the correct location.

The 92 missing meta description tags I would also solve as quickly as possible. Although there is no direct correlation between higher rankings and meta-description tags there is an indirect correlation between the two. As you may know Meta Description tags are used by the seach engines to show up in SERPS and telling the searcher some information about your page/site. Using this information correctly you can influence the searcher a bit by making your description look enticing of irresistible. By doing so your CTR (Click through Rate) will go up and Google measures CTR. Higher CTR in combination with more time spend on the page equals to a great page. Why else would the searcher click on it and stay on the site?

Those factors are known to be used by Google to determine rankings. So that is the indirect link between descriptions and higher rankings.

96 notices about rel=canonical all depends on how they are used. If there is only one canonical tag in the entire site (for instance every page tells the search engine that your homepage is the original one, you're in trouble). So check that one out to but I wouldn't spend to much time on it.

As for some learning material:

MOZ.com beginners guide to SEO is a great way to start. If you manage everything in there you can move along.
http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

another great resource are the Youmoz and Moz blog on this site. I spend more then 1000 hours on there resources alone to learn more about the subject. So if you really want to be a great SEO/Inbound Marketeer/Web Marketeer be prepared to do the same.

Hope this helps you out some.

oh yes the book by Danny Dover is also very usefull:
http://www.dannydover.com/lp/seo-secrets.html

regards

Jarno

DH,

how important is it to show a picture of his page next to the result? The page is about him therefor the subject of the page is this person in the photo. So i don't see a problem with that but did he actually write the page? Author is the person that writes the page. In that case I for sure wouldn't use it.

I also wouldn't use it if i would write a general page about for instance vacuum cleaners. Why would I want my picture next to a vacuum cleaner even if I created the page? It's not that relevant is it? So in general I wouldn't advice on using the author tag other then for blog posts with useful information.

hope this helps

Regards

Jarno

The way Eliathah is suggesting is correct if you are looking at external links from your site.

If you are look at links to other pages on your website ("lot of pages on my site") then i would never nofollow them unless they really are only the increase the number of pages on your site and don't contain any real usefull info. Then again, why would you make a page without any usefull info right?

Hope this helps

Kind Regards

Jarno

Dana,

the buildup of your sitemap.xml is very strange to me. I use an external program to build my sitemap.xml for me entire website.

You now have a link in your robots.txt file pointing to a sitemap which contains 2 files (both .xml) with een map of the site?

Why not use a program (free or paid like Microsys A1 (the one I use)) to build 1 sitemap.xml en point to this file from your robots.txt?

hope this helps

if you do have any questions, please let me know.

kind regards

Jarno

Dear mnkpso,

as far as I know there is not correlation between your position in a city and higher rankings for local results. It all depends on the searcher. For instance if we take Londen (lovely city) and you are located in the very north of londen and you went looking for a restaurant in Google changes are you are only finding restaurants in the north of londen. Google would like to offer you useful information and if you are located in the north why would Google give you results in the far south part of londen ?

So again, I do not know of any correlation between proximity to a citycenter and higher rankings.

just my 2 cents

regards

Jarno

Andrew,

If I understand you correctly it's about the on-page factors of your SEOMoz campaign?

I think they just check what page is indexed for that keyword by Google. Adjusting the page manually in the system is a temporary solution. After that they again go for the indexed page. Maybe it would be wiser to adjust your pages for the keywords in stead of altering the URL.

The page that ranks best for your keyword might just be the most logical page for that keyword. So in stead of adjusting URL's you might want to rethink that strategy and adjust the page.

Hope my insight may help you

regards

Jarno

FFTCOUK,

are you sure you are using the rel=canonical in the right way? You should include it linking to your own page and on page duplicates so you let the search engines know what page is the original one. If there only is one copy op the page you could debate the fact that the rel=canonical isn't necessary for that page.

For instance: If you have 3 pages about vacuum cleaners and page A is the original one then you include a rel=canonical on page A, B and C all pointing to page A

But what if you only have page A? Why should it then link to page A telling that this is the original post? There's only one page about the subject so that makes it the original post right?

I feel pretty strong about using code that has a use for it. For instance, the keyword tag is no longer used by search engines only by your competitors, so why use it? If you only have one page about a specific subject, why use the rel=canonical? The only reason I can come up with is that when someone duplicates your page they include the tag pointing to your site.

Misuse of technical solutions for specific issues doesn't seem right to me. You can use a car, but if you drive to fast or on the wrong lane you're misusing the technical solution for transporting yourself of goods from location A to B and if you get caught doing so, you will be punished. Right?

Hope i made some sense to you.

Any other thoughts on this matter?

regards

Jarno

Zora,

I would also go ahead and ask the webmasters from the websites that are linking to your old domain to change the link to the new domain. Since this can take up several months with google to be noticed you could already do that. In combination with the 301 redirect you could do just fine.

kind regards

Jarno

Carolina,

that sounds like a normal way to go, yes. If you used www.domain.com before i would definitely use it again. No only is it known by people perhaps but also for all the link juice (links pointing to your website) that were build to www.domain.com instead of domain.com. And i would urge them to install analytics on it as soon as possible.

Since it is new design site (no new content?) and the site has been redirected to another subdomain (www. is also a subdomain..) Google could possibly see this as a new website which in turn could mean that it could rank more difficult over time. This is not per se the case but it could happen.

I would urge the developer to undo the redirect immediately, and let him install analytics.If you do this you should be in the right direction again.

kind regards

Jarno

Personally I would go with number 3, purely based on a feeling. Number 2 just feels and look wrong.

I think with number 3 you've got it all logically arranged. State / City dealer. Very logical.

Just my 2 cents.

Regards

Jarno

In addition to Jason's comment: Also make sure that if your use habedi (for example) as a keyword that you want to target, make sure you save your image file as habedi.jpg or png or something. But make sure you include that keyword in the file name. It really helps (even if it's just a very very little bit).

Regards

Jarno

Rodney,

I believe you have the use the $ symbol for following the content and using the ^ symbol I always start off by using the base URL. You could try:

RewriteEngine on
Options MultiViews FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^news(.) http://www.example.com/blog$1 [R=301,L]

I think this should do the trick.

regards

Jarno

I completely agree with EGOL on this one. I always let my clients deliver me the content for the website. I use the following argument for this:

My expertise is SEO, yours is X. If you would have to write about SEO you would also not know where to start, I do. If I have to write about X i would have to do lots of research on the topic and still would not always be correct. You know a lot more about X. So if you can deliver me the content I can do what you hired me to do.

My experience is that this works really well. Let them know that everything about their product of service that they feel is logical is not necessarily logical to others. So you could write content for them, but it will be low quality that no one will link to or share on Social Media so their is no point of creating low quality content.

my 2 cents

Regards

Jarno

Howard,

As far as i know there is not an exact number you are allowed to link to form content. I looked at your page (disney part 1) and the number of links is not to high for the amount of content but I think it's mostly everyone's opinion.

A thing that stood out for me: When I visit your site I see a huge header section with social buttons, site-search, logo, menu and a huge H1. Then I just see a small portion of your content with more adds then content. This could get you hit by Panda/Penguin. Also I see 2 search columns? One on the top right of the page and one in the main section of the site on the right just above the Most popular by Views section. Why?

I would suggest keeping just 1 search bar, making your header a lot narrower (lower) and removing some of the ads on top and placing them further down in the content. That just my 2 cents on this. As for your question about the outbound links: If the links adds value to the page and is logical then you can keep it but keep it all to a minimum.

Jarno

Ivor,

what I would do is make sure you update your sitemap.xml daily and also have Google scan it every day (add it by hand in your webmaster tools or use another tactic). That way you are constantly telling Google where all the pages are. Besides that I would recommend having the right structure for pages that no longer exist so they give a correct 404's and make your pages canonicalized for content (but only if you indeed have unique content). 34000 pages are hard to inspect for problems but you would have to start somewhere.

I also noted that you have a lot of adsense blocks and other ads blocks on the pages. Google Adsenses insist that you use no more then 3 ad blocks on 1 page. If I look at your page I see at least 4 blocks. So I would drastically dial this number down and keep them as low as possible on the page. You now have one above the main content (http://www.mercadonline.es/ads/coches/9909). I would never do this. Start with content (maybe 3 or 4 paragraphs before you introduce you first ad block. I work with adsense a lot and I know the policy of Google on this. This might be why you got hit by the penalties. Panda and Penguin both look at the quality of a page and the ration between ads and content.

Hope this helps you some.

Regards

Jarno

I agree with David,

I would also use a 301 redirect to a new page. You'll catch all the traffic going to the old page that way and also if Google visits it will follow that path. You could then even notice that Google changed the site link for you. It has happened on several occasions.

Regards
Jarno

the .ec stands for ecuador. You can also register that. But .com.ec is also a possibility but it just uses 2 steps (.com) for international and .ec for geotargeting. Maybe using mysitename.ec works better for geotargeting.

Nathan,

15 repeats is a bit excessive but then again your question about why Google in ranking the terms differently is one I asked myself a couple of times now. I use singular and plural version of a word for one of my websites. The search volume for both is not the same. The plural version is a bit lower then the singular one.

Still if you optimize your page for the plural version the singular one should be taken into consideration because in my case the singular version of the word is part of the plural (minicamping and minicampings). The problem is in the fact that these words match for the biggest part.

I would suggest reducing the number of times the word(s) is/are repeated by at least 5 no matter how big the content is, unless it is completely natural off course. That all depends on the words you are using I guess.

Hope this helps

kind regards

Jarno

bristol,

you are completely right, quality links outrank poor quality links any day. It's even so that when you can get 10 high quality links to your website for a keyword e.g. Vacuum cleaners from website with high authority and high PR them self that your competitor maybe need to get a 100 lower quality links to get to the same result. So image what would happen if you can get a 100 or even 500 good quality links to your websites? Your competitors would have to try to get about a 1000 to 5000 links for the exact same result. And when Google decides that quality is even more important then quantity these numbers might even go up more. Quality is everything to Google.

Yes it is very smart to get links to the deeper pages of your website. Keep in mind that tier 2 or 3 pages on your website also link to your homepage so there still is a link-juice flow. That's why it is a smart on-line strategy.

Staying on the example of vacuum cleaners if your deeper pages are brands of vacuum cleaners you should make sure you get high quality links to those page stating: "brand-name vacuum cleaners" e.g. for Philips Vacuum Cleaners you want the inbound links to say exactly that. Since you also name your primary keyword you keep on topic of your site which in turn results in better rankings for your primary keyword. A fun game isn't it?

When sending e-mails to websites for high quality links you could always try something like this:

"Hello.

Let me introduce myself first...introduction.

We noticed your website in our search for Vacuum Cleaners and we must say, our compliments on a piece of art (suck up some more)

Maybe you'll find this an interesting link to share with your community:

yourlink.co.uk

I'm really hoping you would share this link on your website and in return i will inform my community about yours. (this generates a possibility for a 3 way linking so you link to them from another website-> which is your "community")

Hope to hear from you soon

Kind regards/Best Wishes or whatever you want to conclude with,

Yourname

Yoursite.co.uk"

I use a similar version of this in the netherlands in dutch so i translated it roughly for you. I think you can get where to change the specifics? You could also search on this Q&A forum for "e-mail linking" or "e-mail baiting" because i know i saw something about this here earlier. Can't find the link right now.

I do not know if this is allowed in the UK to send to people but maybe you can adapt it a little so it should be fine. I don't know all the laws over there.

Hope this helps

Kind regards

Jarno

Ryan,

as long as you don't use more then 1 redirect per page not one browser will coze problems.

I had a problem with htaccess once beceause i redirected more then 1 variation of a page to the same new page and that generated errors in Safari, Mozilla and Chrome but not IE 8.x..

You should be fine for now.

James,

what you could do i just add a section to your homepage stating: Newly Added Content or something like that and their link to the new page using your keyword. We've tried this with some of our clients and it works just fine and besides your not spamming or participating in illegal activities that way.

hope this helps

Kind regards

Jarno

Dear LGW,

personally I've had a website that got some media coverage and even book coverage by someone. I didn't try to change the keywords used but wanted to see how they would link to me. This happened about a year of 4 ago and since then the branded searches my the company name have risen enormously.

So the best way is to get mentioned in my opinion. If press states also come online and they announce you by your company name with/without website address, then you should definitely see some change in branded search queries or lots more visitors to the page found on that term.

Hope this helps you some.

Regards
Jarno

Jungles,

I don't have any info about experiments on that but I do have something else. A client of mine updates their own pages using Adobe Contribute. I told him not to repeat the keyword he wanted to rank for to many times due to a penalty by Google that could occur. He didn't listen and added 5 sequences of the keywords (keyword contains 4 words). This brought the percentile of the keyword on that page above 15%. Since then.. he ranks number one for that specific keyword and no penalty what so ever.

So just  assuming that a 10% density wouldn't work for generic keywords is not helpful nor is it true but personally i would no go that far.  When using brand names it is a bit different. It makes it more natural sometimes. Using a brand name in each sentence for one could be considered very natural while other people might think it's spamming behavior.

I feel like it's more a flip of an coin and I wouldn't take the change. It would focus on other aspects to rank for the keyword then density.

Hope my advice might help you along a bit

kind regards

Jarno

I personally lean more towards the reaction of EGOL. If you put enough effort in it, keep it straight white hat and do all the steps suggested in the SEOblog section (like link earning in stead of link building) then over time you can outrank that site for sure. But keep working on it. Be social.. share everything you can on facebook, twitter and off course the BIG G+.

Tricks can help you in the short run but hurt you in the long run so i wouldn't go for that straight away.

You could also try registering the other domain you mentioned, put up some content and everything and build it next to your existing website (without copying text etc.). You could do this as a supporting role for your primary website if you wish. But i would focus on my primary website first and improving that one.

regards

Jarno

Hi Ketan,

first let's see if this is correct:

The name of the company consists of 2 separate words combines to one word? Okay. Let's go from there. The problem is that ranking for the 2 words separate from each other has an hole other meaning then when they are combined. Vacuumcleaner is a machine that uses a vacuum to clean but when you search for vacuum cleaner that does not have to mean that you meant a vacuumcleaner. You are searching for something that cleans using a vacuum. (really hopes this makes sense )

You should definitely use the name of the company (combined) since that is the name of the company. You could employ a couple of the words seperatly but I would focus mainly on the combined version. You are trying to brand them right? So it is important that people begin to know the company by it's right name.

Personally I would use that seperate version of the words maybe 3/4 times depending on the page length but focus mainly on the words together. Hopes this helps you a bit.

kind regards

Jarno

I can second that.. same problem...

What Keri is pointing out is quite a good one actually. This was one of the reasons why some pages wouldn't rank. We entered a title and description still nothing. Finally at page 9 or 10 I think it was we found the page. With a completely other title and description. We then used the Social Media integration with titles and descriptions -> Google suddenly changed them too and we started ranking pos. 1 and 2 with some pages.

As for the time laps: A good test (like Rand did with his last WBF video) takes up at least 3 months maybe more. Some changes will take like forever to take effect, others you might notice earlier. Don't give up to soon.

Keyword tag isn't needed anymore indeed like pixel and silver stated.

hope this helps some

Regards
Jarno

Totally agree with Casey. Otherwise everyone that offers something for free would be penalized and we have an empty Internet. Imagine searching for a free e-book on SEO and Google says: "Sorry, but free is a spammy word so I won't show you any results.". That would be hilarious wouldn't it?

Do what Casey mentioned and you should be fine.

Some free advice..

kind regards

Jarno

Mark,

the way i see it you did not over optimize your page for the suggested keyword.

I think the problem my be elsewhere. When i look at the code and the page i really don't think that you over optimized your pages.

Look at this link from opensiteexplorer:

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=www.yakangler.com

Look at the link anchor column. Your keyword doesn't even appear here. Kayak fishing doesn't even appear in the first 50 highest ranking inbound links. If i were you i would focus on getting some more links to my site using the keyword you want to rank for. If you can have about 25-50% inbound links containing your keyword you would still be fine (when on the topic of overoptimizing) but i quess you would be in the top 20 of Google then. So start building on your links and shares (facebook and twitter) with your site mentioned in combination with your keyword.

hope this helps

Kind Regards

Jarno

I totally agree with Paul.

Another thing I noticed on one of my websites: I had the canonical code in the header. Someone copied my entire page and published it to their website (with canonical tag) so the openly told the search engines that my website was the original copy of the content.

another reason why it could work

regards

Jarno

Hi,

If I get what you are asking then you will be facing duplicate content issues unless you use a canonical tag stating where you get the reviews from. So for instance if you have product A on websites Z, Y and X (hopefully every site has it's own unique content for the product or you'll be facing duplicate content issues right away).

If you get reviews on Z you want to use them on X and Y
If your get reviews on X you want to use them on Z and Y
etc.

I think you can use canonical tags pointing in the direction you get  the information from but I am not sure it will do the trick. Maybe there is a widget of plugin for the site that gets the reviews from a review site and shows them on the other sites? That might be a lot better and a lot less complicated. Or just keep the reviews at each site. But that is just stating the obvious.

Jarno

Joe,

I think you should change the title back to what it was. This could go 2 ways. With the changed title it now drops but afterwards goes up higher then before, or you change it back and start off by testing with something else to help improve your rankings. The first version of your title: Chair Mats - Commercial Quality Chair Mats, Custom Made does contain the keywords twice (i would go for 1 but 2 might work for you) but has a nice coverage. The second version of your title has the second keyword more prominent in the title. This could result in drop because it is considered keyword stuffing by Google (not saying it is but it could be).

That is what i would do, change it back.

Your description: " Chair Mats of commercial quality. Build your Chair Mats on-line using our exclusive chair mat ordering system... any shape, any size.  A+ BBB rating! <a class="attribute-value">"</a>

It contains your keyword 3 times in frequent order. I would remove at least 1.

You could also try changing your H1 tag:

Now you have this: Lifetime warranty on our most popular chair mats!

I would change this to: Chair Mats with a lifetime warranty on our most popular models.

I wouldn't change everything at once but change 1 or 2 things and wait on Google. See what happens and then change the next thing and the next.

Hope this helps you out a little.

Kind Regards
Jarno

Mark,

Google still using anchor text to determine what subject your website is about. If all of the inbound links state something other then your primary keyword then apparently people don't think that that's the subject of your website (according to Google).

Over optimizing is overdoiing it. If you are linkbuilding you can easily add some keyword for inbound links, as long as you don't overdo it. So don't make 100.000 links to your site with keyword and only 5 without. If you can find a good percentage in here somewhere you should be just fine.

Hope this helps

Kind Regards

Jarno

Hi,

if the policy states that you have to use the official logo why not use that one then? I know that you can use a home made logo for facebook, linkedin and twitter but not Google+ I never even tried.

I would suggest using the button supported by Google since their policy states you should (I believe you can choose different version right?)...

my 2 cents

Regards

Jarno

I think you did answer your own question.

Rankings for site:mysite.com keyword is completely irrelevant. You're telling Google to show you the pages of your site with that keyword. It's only an indication for if you are being indexed or not.

So no other questions remain?

Good luck to you

Regards

Jarno

I would go with the suggestion of BrewSEO. 301 the pages that are on topic if they are off topic then no 301 redirect.

I would make sure that all incoming links to the old page get redirected to the new as soon as possible. If you know what the page is going to be, maybe ask them kindly already to update their links by the end of the year. This will help Google correct your website much faster. Also use webmaster tools. They also have a moving section I believe so insert your information there.

hope this helps you a bit

just my 2 cents

Kind regards

Jarno

Hi tom,

why are you not considering hosting your own wordpress blog on another server of with a hosting company? That way you can install seo plugins but also perhaps resolve some of these issues that seem to be created by software used by wordpress. If you install it on your own server you get more of a hand in the possibilities of your blog. Still doesnt resolve the issues? Contact the wordpress forum for a technical assistant who perhaps can assist you.

At appears to me this is a very technical solution more appropriate at the wordpress forum but thats just me.

I would start by hosting it away from the wordpress server.

regards

Jarno

Thanks for the heads up Matt.

Luckily this doesn't apply since I used a button without the little bird in it. I made a Button with a F for Facebook a L for Linkedin and a T for Twitter so no bird in there. As i understand the policy even birds are allowed but you may not alter the bird (making it look the other way) or anything. Since I haven't done that I should be in the clear.

It's on a test domain for a client o f mine without any real promotional attention.

Still better to know now then later right. Thanks dude.

Jarno

hi there,

it's actually very simple. You have multiple <title>elements in your code. Fix that issue and your site should pass the W3C.</p> <p>Take a close look at your head and if you have the ability rearrange your data. The cleaner your coding is the easier it is to read.</p> <p>regards</p> <p>Jarno</p></title>

If you change the entire Address you'll also use 301. So that's why i think it is possible.

Dana,

sometimes that happens. Are you scanning for images or are you scanning the site?

i will check your site tomorrow with my full version and see what it does.

Sometimes with some websites you'll get things like this but it can be loads of things. 3500 pages should not take 2 hours but only a couple of minutes. I'll check it first thing tomorrow. A1 is not installed on my laptop..

Let you know tomorrow.

Kind regards

Jarno

Andy,

i really do feel you're in the right track. Social Media is important (Twitter, Facebook and Google+) and whith that content strategy that you are using you are definatly on the right track. Should be doing fine. As soon as you cleared up the errors and warnings you should see some progression in your rankings. Document everything you do, is my advice. Never let a costumer doubt you without having proof of action.

regards

Jarno

Graftene,

you are absolutely right that it would just loop, however there are several reason you can still apply the tag.

1. If someone find the need to copy your entire site / code they will also copy your canonical which may not be deleted by them.

2. If there are instances of the some content on the net you at least tell the search engines that the original version of the text is on your website.

The second reason in my opinion is the most important. Why? Because if you do some content marketing and you share your information or your texts with the web it can very well be that you would want to use your own text, in that case, the search engine at least knows where the original is.

Hope this helps some

Regards

Jarno

Andreas,

you might be able to do some general work on the site but if you really want it to have effect I would not go for a flash site with/withour CMS.

There is a lot written on this subject. Start with the Beginners guide to SEO on this site or the one from Google.

My 2 cents

Regards

Jarno

Nathan,

i just checked it but Google has listed your website:

https://www.google.nl/#hl=nl&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=site:www.ides.com&oq=site:www.ides.com&gs_l=hp.3...9155.10216.0.10588.6.6.0.0.0.0.83.379.6.6.0...0.0...1c.1.-joJ_MSKy4Q&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=9fb3527bfa81f7c4&bpcl=39650382&biw=1366&bih=600

If you were truly penalized i don't think i would get the results I'm getting now. Have you checked your robots.txt file for any strange markings? strange signs or number sequences? When i look at it  it looks like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /ArtScape/
Disallow: /aspnet_client/
Disallow: /costmate/CMHelp.aspx
Disallow: /demos/eplasturgy/
Disallow: /downloads/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /grades/
Disallow: /graveyard/
Disallow: /Gulf_War/
Disallow: //info/manufacturers/
Disallow: /LanapCaptcha.aspx
Disallow: /plasticsmarketplace/(S
Disallow: /processors/
Disallow: /PWeb
Disallow: /pweb/
Disallow: /news/
Disallow: /newsletters/archive/
Disallow: /newsletters/free/
Disallow: /newsletters/x5/
Disallow: /questions/
Disallow: /registration/
Disallow: /resinpricing/history.aspx
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tools/CMHelp.aspx
Disallow: /thunderstone/
Disallow: /Web_Solutions.html
Sitemap: http://app.wistia.com/sitemaps/8875.xml
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

Maybe this last statement is confusing Google? i have never seen a ia_archiver disallow root statement before. Is it the right syntaxis?

What are your webmastertools saying? Any strange errors or messages?

Kind Regards

Jarno

Sarita,

this is why there is the possibility of canonical tags. More info about canonicalization: learn through moz.com

When you have written the item and share it through any kind of software or partner I would suggest publishing the original first with a canonical tag to your own site, then sending it to the rest and asking them to include the same canonical tag. That way you should be doing fine.

Regards

Jarno